kernel-hardening - RE: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/19] Since we need to change the implementation, stop exposing internals. Provide kref_read() to read the current reference count; typically used for debug messages.

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Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 12:50:45 +0000
From: "Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@...el.com>
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Subject: RE: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/19] Since we need to
 change the implementation, stop exposing internals. Provide kref_read() to
 read the current reference count; typically used for debug messages.

> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 04:49:26PM +0000, Reshetova, Elena wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 08:55:53AM +0200, Elena Reshetova wrote:
> > > > Kills two anti-patterns:
> > > >
> > > > 	atomic_read(&kref->refcount)
> > > > 	kref->refcount.counter
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
> > >
> > > If you are going to send patches out, do it right, with a correct
> > > subject, your signed-off-by: added, and the rest.  Otherwise it just
> > > makes some of us cringe when we have to read these...
> >
> > I didn't want to touch Peter's patches, since I assume he would send them
> separately by himself
> > and then we don't have to carry them around. However until that happens,
> > for testing compilation on different archs, they need to be included in the series.
> 
> Why not fix them up properly, they should be part of this series, as you
> are relying on them.  To not do so seems very strange to me...

Peter, do you have any preferences on how to handle your patches?  
I am not sure if you wanted to send it yourself and had some plans to do smth to it? 
I can also incorporate them fully in this series, just didn't want to overrun any plans you had for it.

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